Rob Raphael

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@khademh Well said Ali! I hope that your country is finally liberated from the oppression of the past 47 years.

Wishing everyone in Iran safety and hope that the war will end with freedom of the country. A regime that killed so many of its people should not rule.

@eaalaei I hope your family is safe and that your country is finally liberated from the oppression of the past 47 years.

My little brother… Hopefully this is the last war mullahs gone, and peace for Iranians. 🇮🇷

@manorlaboratory Do they even know that cochlear implants restore functional hearing? Many years ago I started saying “I could write a book about what they don’t know”. Perhaps it’s time …

@manorlaboratory Pretty sure the grants reviewed 1/22 won’t be considered until next council round

@manorlaboratory One thing I’ve learned in this business is to “rise above” our emotional reaction when these kinds of things happen - hard as it is. Remind me to tell you my reaction to my very first grant being triaged - it was quite a Sicilian eruption :)

@manorlaboratory I can make a guess as to what happened: I noticed one original reviewer had an approach of 5. If you did not modify the approach, or hit the nail on the head in your response, this could lead to a lower scores across the board. Discuss with your SRO.

@manorlaboratory But you are succeeding!

Read the latest on fast neurotransmission at vestibular synapses! We show extracellular potentials speed up spiking by reducing K+ currents on the outer face of calyx afferent neurons. Neural architecture matters - and helps you keep your balance! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@delapuente_lab Congratulations! Well-deserved!

We’re thrilled to share that #delaPuentelab has been awarded an NIH R37 MERIT Award! This prestigious grant supports our long-term research in ovarian cancer focused on ECM dynamics. A huge thank you to our lab members and collaborators #R37 #OvarianCancer #ECM #LabMilestone

@SwingleKelsey @Rice_BIOE Welcome to the department! We are so lucky to have you! It was dinner at Marmo that sealed the deal, right?

I am thrilled to announce that I am joining @Rice_BIOE as an Assistant Professor in July 2025! We will engineer therapeutics at the interface of biomaterials science, immune engineering, and reproductive medicine to address global health challenges. (1/n) swingle-lab.com

Congratulations to my postdoc Aravind for winning the first place award for podium presentation at the Vestibular Oriented Research meeting in Boulder, CO. His research is advancing our understanding of how groups of vestibular hair cells work together to encode head motion.

Dr. Aravind Govindaraju of the Raphael Lab presents research on “Modelling Signal Generation in Vestibular Sensory Neuroepithelial Tissue” at the 2025 retreat!

@delapuente_lab @Rice_BIOE @ASIPath @MDAndersonNews @creinhartking @SanfordResearch Thanks for visiting - enjoyed your seminar!

Grateful to Fred Sanfilippo Award from @ASIPath, which enabled me to gave seminars @Rice_BIOE and @MDAndersonNews. Thank @creinhartking for hosting me, allowing me to connect with amazing faculty/trainees and exchange ideas. #delapuentelab #ASIP @SanfordResearch

@doc_tmp Anne is a gem! We miss her at Rice.

Privileged to have Dr. Ann Saterbak from Duke BME as our seminar speaker today. She shared her work on project-based learning and assessing student self-efficacy in engineering education. Really inspiring and I have so many ideas to discuss with my faculty.

@ggeleoc @jonykipnis Stay and fight. As I recall you have some Irish ancestry … “We're chosen of a fighting race That never yet has known disgrace" — From the English lyrics of "Amhrán na BhFiann"

@manorlaboratory When I was in grad school, we made PBS. Much cheaper. Plus it insures the next generation knows how to make solutions and use a pH meter. It should be a requirement for a PhD in Biological Sciences that you know how to make PBS :)

Sad to learn of the passing of Mike Sheetz, who contributed so much to our understanding of mechanical forces in biology. His early work on the bilayer couple hypothesis and membrane tethers were a great inspiration when I was writing my PhD thesis. He will be missed.

@kenneylj Dear Linda: So sorry to hear this news. I so enjoyed getting to know Mike better these past few years after you moved to Galveston. Always knew him as a great scientist; glad I got to know him as a warm person. His memory will always be an inspiration.

My heart is broken as I announce the passing of my beloved husband, science partner and friend, Michael Sheetz. A remarkable scientist we packed 40 years of living into 20. Rejuvenation of senescent cells and mice in Press in Aging Cell; his last words were this was his best work

@hanneuro Cool

How does the octopus nervous system control its 8 wiggly uber-flexible arms and integrate information from all those suckers? Possibly, by modularity, suckerotopy, and cooperation between segments of the axial nerve cord ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4146…